Here you will find documents arguing for the effectiveness of – or giving detailed descriptions to practicing – various Disruptive tactics. If you wanted to know how to build a barricade, run a consciousness raising group, or sabotage a pipeline, this is the place for you.
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ActUP Activists Lock Al Gore Out of Office
On August 23, 1997, Five activists were arrested after locking down the Old Executive Office Building to deny Al Gore access to proceed with his U.S.-South Africa deal on pharmaceutical access.
Mothering Against Motherhood: doula work, xenohospitality and the idea of the comrade – Sophie Lewis (2022)
This essay, titled “Mothering Against Motherhood: doula work, xenohospitality and the idea of the momrade” by Sophie Lewis, explores the concept of “mothering against motherhood” and “family abolition.” She argues fo…
Young Lords High School Revolt
In this document, Richie Perez from the Young Lords Party calls upon his Black and Puerto Rican community members to continue to fight for the “return of the educational system to the people.” Perez defines the common en…
Communique 2 From The Weather Underground (1970)
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on June 9, 1970 and takes responsibility for the bombing of a police headquarters.
Vimla Bahuguna on The Chipko Movement (2023)
This interview with Vimla Bahuguna touches on the Chipko Movement in India and how ecofeminism came to be today
Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
The Industrial Workers of the World is a worker-led union advocating for and working towards direct action, democracy in the workplace, and unionism. This manifesto explains the power of collective membership since capit…
Hong Kong 2014 Umbrella Movement
In 2014 in Hong Kong, the Umbrella movement began after Beijing ruled against universal suffrage, prompting tens of thousands of activists to occupy main roads in the city for weeks on end. Protesters built barricades, s…
Black Panther Party’s Free Medical Clinic
The Black Panther Party created the Mark Clark Free Medical Clinic to assist Black families with gaining access to proper medical facilities. The newspaper article argues Philadelphia’s state-provided medical care is hap…
Choke Points: Mapping an Anticapitalist Counter-Logistics – Degenerate Communism (2014)
Essay arguing for the material and theoretical logic behind the disruption of the circulation of capital. A mapping of the logistical infrastructure of California with assessment of its major choke points
10 Steps for Setting Up a Blockade – (2018)
First off, understand that you CAN do this. For the last 18 months groups as small as 8 have been disrupting and occupying pipeline construction sites all over Turtle Island. It takes even fewer than that to accomplish m…
A Letter to All Defenders of the Revolution – Paris Commune (1871)
This letter, written in 1871, calls on “the republicans of the world” to support the Paris Commune and rise up against the common enemy.
The Proper Way to Harvest Wheat? Direct Action for the 90’s (1989)
This document highlights various forms of direct action and resistance employed by groups such as Plowshares, known for disarmament actions, and Earth First!, associated with environmental sabotage. The text also discuss…
We Are Still Here (2009)
This is a communique from the occupation of a business administration building at San Francisco State University in the fall of 2009. Occupiers were protesting budget cuts and fee increases. In this communique, students…
Blockade, Occupy, Strike Back (2012)
This is a guide that was distributed by anarchists during the 2012 student strikes and social conflicts in Montreal. The document provides step-by-step instructions on how to form crews, how to create paint bombs, how to…
Darkness Before Dawn: Occupy Movements of Bahrain
The uprisings in Bahrain were demonstrations that challenged the internal power of the nation as well as its external relations. People gathered in masses at the Pearl Roundabout, with many series of anti-government prot…
The Construction of Lay Expertise (1995)
The Written Resistance #3 – National Students for Justice In Palestine (2024)
This is the third edition of the newsletter written by a compilation of individual authors and published by the National Students for Justice in Palestine. The importance of discomfort, the global struggle against imperi…
The Yellow Jacket Movement: France 2018
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary French citizens put on their high-visibility vests as a response to President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax hike.
Declaration of Rebellion – Extinction Rebellion UK (n.d.)
Extinction Rebellion UK published a statement detailing their rebellion against the government, and declaring the nullification of the bonds of the social contract as a result of the government’s failure to directly ad…